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The Cameron Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$25k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
17%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$9,500
Organizations funded a year
6 to 13
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$850k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 17% of the organizations The Cameron Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $450 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesArts & CultureAnimalsEducationPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving7$25k14%
FY20236$27k17%
FY20228$33k50%
FY20217$32k29%
FY20206$32k17%
FY20197$32k14%
FY20189$38k33%
FY201713$41kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$88kRecreation & Sports$46kArts & Culture$43kAnimals$28kPhilanthropy$17kPublic Safety & Disaster$13kHousing & Shelter$8kHealth$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 15 grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($111k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Cameron Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWide Open Walls: $41,960 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetWest Sacramento Swim Team Inc: $15,750 over 2y, 23% of budgetFriends of Felines Rescue: $14,250 over 2y, 19% of budgetThe Chester Foundation: $12,500 over 3y, 9.5% of budgetWest Sacramento Police Officers Association: $12,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetSacramento Loaves & Fishes: $8,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMarine Toys for Tots Foundation: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgetown Divide Rotary Club: $1,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSacramento Area Fire Fighters Benevolent Fund: $1,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetPurebreds Plus Cat Rescue Inc: $900 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetChicks in Crisis Inc: $450 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Sacramento Region Community FoundationCA13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Cameron Foundation

How much does The Cameron Foundation give?
The Cameron Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $25,450 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Cameron Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (34%), Recreation & Sports (18%), Arts & Culture (17%).
Who are The Cameron Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Wide Open Walls ($42k), West Sacramento Swim Team Inc ($16k), Northern California Peace Officers Association Sch ($15k).
Does The Cameron Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Cameron Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Cameron Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sacramento Region Community Foundation, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Cameron Foundation based?
The Cameron Foundation is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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